Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] HP RPC Decodes

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:31:25 -0500
Who is in the best position to speak about whether Ethereal can read
proprietary HP RPCs?



> > >"BERUBE,KELLAH (HP-USA,ex1)" <kellah_berube@xxxxxx> on 01/11/2002
03:03:43
> > >PM
> > >
> > >To:   Nelson Goodman/AO/USR/FTU@FTU
> > >cc:   Peter Makohon/AO/USR/FTU@FTU
> > >
> > >Subject:  RE: RPC information and using Ethereal
> > >
> > >
> > >Nelson:
> > >I wanted to give you a status.  Our support engineers are looked into
your
> > >questions regarding proprietary RPC calls.  Here is their response:
> > >
> > >      "Regarding your question whether or not HP has any proprietary
RPC
> > >code.  The answer is Yes, all of our code for that matter is
> proprietary in
> > >that it is not open source that customers may pull down and modify at
> their
> > >will.  We ported the ONC release from Sun about a couple of years ago,
and
> > >our current code is 1.2 with some functionality from 2.3 built on
> top.  So,
> > >basically we have the same ONC software as sun."
> > >
> > >      "The library that we use is libnsl for most of the main
components
> > >of rpc and nfs. If the vendor has a working solution already for HP,
then
> > >they should be able to troubleshoot the problem, and/or work with us
if
> > >they
> > >do not."
> > >So, if Guy Harris and the Ethereal folks want to work with our
Engineering
> > >team, we can hook them up on this Case number = 3200534109.   Let me
know.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Kella